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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Boost Deportation Drive
Original: ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to recruit roughly 5,000 new employees to support an expanded deportation campaign. The hiring push points to a major scaling-up of the agency's enforcement capacity. Immigration policy is a sharply contested issue in the United States, and any expansion of deportation operations draws strong reactions from both supporters of tougher enforcement and critics concerned about its impact on immigrant communities.
Why now: Expansion of US immigration enforcement affects millions and remains one of the most politically charged issues in American news.
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- ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive · The New York Times
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